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Tech Field Day – Video

by Sunshine on November 16, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

Tech Field Day may be over, but it lives on in digital form–scattered like so many tiny shreds of confetti across the interwebs. One of the delegates at the event, Rod Haywood, put together this video on his Musings of Rodos blog about Day 2 of the event, featuring interviews with Ocarina‘s own Goutham Rao, [...]

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Storage News and Views, October 23

Storage News and Views, October 23

by Sunshine on October 23, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, cloud

What a long, strange trip it’s been for storage recently. First, there was the disaster that turned out to be less of a disaster than we thought. All those Paris Hilton phone numbers and Perez Hilton black book emails lost to a Sidekick in the ribs … But then it turned out all was not [...]

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The Great Booth Babe Controversy

The Great Booth Babe Controversy

by Sunshine on September 16, 2009 in Featured, Storage

For those who are new to this debate, I will catch you up. First, there was VMWorld–which was kind of like a cross between a high level MIT graduate symposium and Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus (with strippers). Whatever the intentions of the organizers, somehow that show was a strange concatenation of labs on [...]

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Tiered Storage – A Virtual Future

by Carter George on August 20, 2009 in Analyst, Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, cloud, green IT

There’s been a lot of discussion about tiered storage lately. Most notably, Stephen Foskett has written a series of posts on the topic on his Nirvanix blog, Enterprise Storage Strategies. In his latest post, he essentially argues that tiered storage hasn’t turned out to be cost effective and that cloud storage could be the best [...]

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Dedupe Grows Up

by Sunshine on July 29, 2009 in Analyst, Ocarina, Storage, capacity optimization

George Crump has a piece in Byte and Switch today that poses an important question: “Can we get to a single point of deduplication?” This is a question that we have taken up in one form or another in some of our recent posts, such as this one and this one. In the article, Crump [...]

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It’s Getting Cloudy up There

by Sunshine on July 24, 2009 in cloud

Seems Uncle Sam is trying to tighten his belt through cloud computing. Government, at both the federal and state level, is debating how to make better use of this cost-cutting innovation. As we reported a few weeks ago, there are already some initiatives coming down the pike, such as Nirvanix providing cloud storage for NASA [...]

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Reaching the Moon Through the Cloud

Reaching the Moon Through the Cloud

by Sunshine on July 3, 2009 in cloud

A story caught my eye this morning that I just couldn’t help but blog about. Dave Simpson over at InfoStor is reporting that our friends at Nirvanix are providing cloud storage for a NASA mission to orbit the moon! As Simpson points out this is perhaps the most creative usage of cloud storage we’ve seen. [...]

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The Future of NAS — Hint: Data Reduction is a Big Part of It

by Sunshine on July 1, 2009 in Analyst, Blogroll, capacity optimization

If it isn’t already, then Stephen Foskett’s Enterprise Storage Strategies blog for Nirvanix should be on your reading list. Today he has an interesting take on some statistics that have emerged on the future of NAS, as collected by analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group. Analyst Terri McClure has an excellent post on the results. Here [...]

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Backup to the Future

Backup to the Future

by Carter George on May 28, 2009 in Storage

I’ve been thinking a lot about backups lately. Yesterday, blogger Stephen Foskett put up a post on his Nirvanix blog, Enterprise Storage Strategies, that got me thinking about the subject some more. In seeking to answer the seemingly simple question, “What is a Backup?” he garnered input from several industry experts — coming up with [...]

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The Dedupe Wars

by Carter George on April 30, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, capacity optimization

At Ocarina, we’re having a great deal of success these days with partnerships, and the buzz around this is being seen in the storage press and beyond. What has happened in part is that now that NetApp has made dedupe table stakes, we are the dance partner that many vendors are turning to, as we [...]

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